Getting Up and Running with Sitecore 9
This post serves to get you up and running quickly on a local instance of the newly released Sitecore 9. If you don't feel like reading the whole thing - use the links below to jump to the section that interests you. Prerequistes SQL Database Configuration SOLR Setup Install SIF and Sitecore Fundamentals Install XConnect and Sitecore Post-Install Steps Conclusion As Sitecore enthusiasts will no doubt be aware, Sitecore 9 was released recently and comes with a host of new features. I could probably go into some depth about these but will leave it to you to read the lowdown from the one-and-only JammyKam . The biggest change is XConnect which separates out Xdb related functions into a separate layer enabling collection of analytics data from a wider variety of sources such as mobile apps, IOT sensors, third party apps etc. More information on XConnect can be found here . Another big change (no doubt influenced by XConnect) that you will face when downloading Sitecore